ABOUT

PRODUCING / ENGINEERING / SONGWRITING

I have been a musician for 20 years, and have spent the last 15 producing, recording, and mixing. I own and run The Audio Village in Austin, TX and play guitar with Aaron Ivey at The Austin Stone Community Church and serve as the Director of Albums for Austin Stone Worship.

My side project, The Reveille, is an all-instrumental project of film score-esque music. Our newest record, Vol II, was released in November 2014 and features a 16-piece orchestra mixed with electronic and percussive elements. Take a listen on SoundCloud.

I’d love to help be a part of your next project, be it from songwriting, arranging, producing, recording, mixing, or any of the above! Contact me here.

PROJECTS

Below are some of the projects I have worked on recently. Click on an album cover to listen to a song and view other information.

BLOG

If there’s one thing that continually bothers about this life, it can be summed up in the word “maintenance”. There isn’t a single thing on this earth that doesn’t ultimately fail. Nothing is new under the sun, and nothing stays new under the sun. As soon as you drive a car off the lot, it’s value plummets because it is no longer in its perfect, original state. Now, it requires maintenance.

I’m a fairly Type A person, and it bothers me when things are not in some semblance of order. The constant requirement of maintenance for every single thing around us — including ourselves — is endlessly frustrating. “I just got this thing, why is broken already?” is a constant mantra in my head. Nothing is ever in a state of “completion”. There’s always something that breaks, something that gets misaligned, something that is not operating as it ought.

Lately, I have been feeling the conviction of practicing an economy of words.

We live in a world of such great noise, both audible and visual. If we’re not careful, we get totally swept under by the sheer amount of information and “sound” coming at us. It’s a wonder to sit and watch your Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram feeds: a flood of nonstop updates and moments. There is great joy in seeing the world unfold around us, but there is also an inherent danger of the important things getting lost in the noise. This includes the noise in our own conversations.

A few months ago, I was talking with my wife about having kids, as we had been praying and thinking through this decision. It’s a complex subject, with many different associated feelings, and one that can be riddled with fears and anxieties. Expressing those can be difficult! As we were talking, I realized suddenly I had been talking for five minutes and had barely begun to adequately state what I meant to get across. My explanation was filled with filler words: “um”, “like”, “in that sense of”, “you know what I mean?”. It was like speaking in code: take every tenth word and compile a coherent thought. Throw away the others.